Topic Research

For my last project I am to work with the continuation of sculpture... I am in the process of researching more information on soapstone. I am wanting to play with it and just experiment with something the masters have used. I am also going to continue using the white clay I have become familiar with.

It's exciting to think of my little statuette collection I have coming along... I have yet to have all the pieces aligned. I need to fix up the last sculpture I created... the hand was really throwing me off during its presentation. I have yet to plan another way of the burn... the funds are just not there. And the weather isn't generous for grilling.

I just want to get started creating!

Dennis Hopper

Last Week, I went to the MFA to a artist lecture with Dennis Hopper as the guest speaker. I showed up extra early and was fortunate enough to greet him. Dennis Hopper is a well known actor, who has starred in many great films. Blue Velvet, Easy Rider, and famous Rebel without a Cause. While in his acting career he would shoot photo's of many of his costars working on set. One day while photographing James Dean, he was confronted by James for taking his photo. James said to Dennis not to crop the photo that if he cropped his photo's he'd regret it. At the show Dennis said he thanks James for that advice!

He was very close to the Pop Art king himself Andy Warhol. They were friends and Dennis is in one of Warhol's paintings. Dennis's work is most a mix between pop art and impressionistic. His images look very photo like... when the are oil on canvas. He was very intriguing in his evolution into the art world. I was very inspired to go home and find my missing imagination.